salty kid talk

[Margaret Lee]

Salty has been used in the African-American community
for decades, meaning angry or mad, along with "to jump
salty," meaning to become angry or mad.

Margaret Lee

--- Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> I've heard this for at least five years in Seattle,
> but I would say probably
> 10.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> gogaku at ix.netcom.com
>
> ------Original Message-----
> -From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On
> -Behalf Of Greg Pulliam
> -
> -My nine-year-old tells me that the latest
> playground word at his Oak
> -Park, IL (Chicago suburb) elementary school is
> "salty," meaning sad
> -or depressed.
> -
> --
> -Greg
>


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Margaret G. Lee, Associate Professor,English & Linguistics
Department of English
Hampton University
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